Weekend fun for the OS junkies. A collection of some interesting quotes from the three influential figures in the history of Operating Systems. Some of the quotes are controversial and some of them are just shockingly funny. Personal favorite: Steve Jobs' quote about Bill Gates "He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
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Member since:2005-07-08
Well.... I didn't really think about analyzing the blogger. But I think the collection of quotes epitomizes Jobs' and Torvalds' character. I have to agree that it works against Gates for the most part... but come on, this is supposed to be a light-hearted post. Are you sure it didn't bring even a smile on your face?
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2007-09-06
Uh.. OS based on Linux have been running perfectly for many people as desktop installs. The mythic "Desktop Linux" arrived years ago.
For "desktop Linux", let's give up the "year of the linux desktop" crap; it arrived a long time ago and we don't need to relive it every time some new user to Linux goes through the romantic honeymoon fase.
As for Apple's market share, that is there own decision based on corporate startegy. I can't help you there but unless your a key investor, I wouldn't worry about it much. It does not prove anything versus any other platform outside of retail popularity.
Overall, the quotes chosen amuzed me. They did paint MS with a rather dark shade but I don't think ut was undeserving. Some more evenly balanced quotes would have been ok too but the chosen quotes did represent the three people well enough.
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2005-07-11
.Boring.
It just reflicts how kiddish the mindset of that blogger is. He just picked up the most ridiculus quotes for Bill Gates to present him as a stupid guy who doesn't have a vision or knowledge.
Clearly he is an Apple fan boy, no wonder he picked up strong Steve Jobs words. Nothing wrong with that if he picked same quotes for the rest.
As usual, for Linus, the blogger showed him as a cheappo with ego.
You should fix the teaser to "Weekend junk for OS flam0r l33t kiddos!"
This is far from weekend fun!
Edited 2008-07-26 17:13 UTC